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Adding the Doctype

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration should always be included at the top of the HTML document, before the <html> tag. 5 See HTML 5 Doctype for details on the HTML 5 Doctype. <!DOCTYPE html> 4.01 See HTML 4.01 Doctypes for details on how these types differ from each other. Stri...

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HTML 4.01 Doctypes

The HTML 4.01 specification provides several different types of doctypes that allow different types of elements to be specified within the document. HTML 4.01 Strict <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> Includes all...

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HTML 5 Doctype

HTML5 is not based on SGML, and therefore does not require a reference to a DTD. HTML 5 Doctype declaration: <!DOCTYPE html> Case Insensitivity Per the W3.org HTML 5 DOCTYPE Spec: A DOCTYPE must consist of the following components, in this order: A string that is an ASCII case-inse...

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Old Doctypes

HTML 3.2 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> HTML 3.2 is well supported by most browsers in use. However, HTML 3.2 has limited support for style sheets and no support for HTML 4 features such as frames and internationalization. HTML 2.0 <!DOCTYPE HTML P...

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